GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 115, 1 October 1912, Page 3

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

appeal conn: opened. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Monday. The Appeal Curt was opened to-day. There are fifteen casts already on the list. - .

NAPIER GISBORNE LINE. .Napier,,. Monday. The Trades and Labour Council passed a resolution strongly protesting against the aotion of the Massey Government in stopping all work on the Napier-Gisborne railway, as the.Council-is of opinion that it is only a move to throw surplus'labour, on the market, in' view"' of work restarting at Waihi; also to hamper the opening up of large i estates, which will prevent workers getting on the land. Nearly otic hundred men were' put off the , works, '

HEAVY WEATHER. i ' .Gieborne, Monday. A very heavy sea is raging along the coast. The Mokoia had a long passage from Auckland, and was unable to communicate with Gisborne this . morning. She was signalled to proceed south.', The storm is now abating.

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. ; Gisborne, Monday. Charles Frederick Hillman recovered £152 and costs from the Gisborne Borough Council for injury sustained through cycling into a guy rope when, anelectric light pole was being' erected.

I FREIGHTS ON WHEAT. j Dunedin, Monday. | _ The oversea shipping companies iliaVe increased the freight dn grain ;5s • per ton,,.thus making tire rate for. wheat and oats 30s per ton. The new scale will remain till the end of the season. It is stated that the increase is due to the_ exceptional t demand for colonial grain from Home, where bad weather has affected th'e crop. The rates for frozen meat and 'dairy produce are unaffected, haying been 'fixed by contract.

THE SALE OF. POISONS. Palmerston North,' Monday. Reserved judgment -was' delivered in the case' in which ,a local chemist was charged with having sold corrosive sublimate without making an entrv as required by the Poisons Act'. The information was dismissed.

. THE BANKRUPTCY ACT. Auckland. Monday. In the Police Court, John Whitaker, horse trainer, was charged under the Bankruptcy Act with .not 'having kept proper- hooks arid' .having contracted debts with no reason-able prospect of pay : ing them, A sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed.